Quotes About Equality

We are not jealous of what anyone else has if we have the same thing. Fear comes when we are afraid we will be left out or have to do without what we want.

Él no muestra prejuicios ni favoritismos con ciertas personas, y deberíamos seguir su ejemplo.

Life Isn't Fair, but God Is Faithful

Single women should not be made to feel they are missing something because they are not married. Married women should not be made to feel they must have a career to be complete.

For the Gentiles

La muerte no se reparte como si fuera un bien.

Only those of us who have been slaves can really taste freedom, he sometimes thought.

I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not propose a return to a notion of the phallus as the third term in any and all relations of desire.

It would surely be a mistake to gauge the success of feminism by its success as a colonial project. p41.

If the interdiction against killing rests on the presumption that all lives are valuable—that they bear value as lives, in their status as living beings—then the universality of the claim only holds on the condition that value extends equally to all living beings. This means that we have to think not only about persons, but animals; and not only about living creatures, but living processes, the systems and forms of life.

Sometimes "reality" is used to debunk as childish or unknowledgeable points of view that actually are holding out a more radical possibility of equality or freedom or democracy or justice.... It reminds me of parents who say, "Oh, you're gay..." or "Oh, you're trans—well, of course I accept you, but it's going to be a very hard life." Instead of saying, "This is a new world, and we are going to build it together...

The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest in the comparative status-conveying qualities of sneakers. Manners are available to all, for free.

Nor is he man enough to make a woman of you.

I can't understand why men are allowed to straddle a horse, while we - who are supposed to be the weaker sex - must hang off the side, praying for our lives.

If things are better for women there, it is due to a profound and enduring social consensus that life should be made livable based on who they are and not on an abstract moralistic notion of how they ought to be.

As long as she loves me and I love her, what difference does religion make?

Help the Retarded. Two

When women's lib hit the headlines many of these second-generation ranch women sniffed around its edges and pitched it back like a dead carp. If equality meant doing a man's work, you could have it. That brand of equality had dug their mothers an early grave and was three feet down on their own. They'd come a long way baby, and were on the road back to being real ladies -- or so it appeared.

Zeros now have a place, and they displace the phallic order of ones.

Judith Butler, for example, has argued that men's and women's interests are not objectively given, but are collectively created.

Ei ole niin väliä, ketä rakastaa, kunhan rakastaa.

Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt more spiritual, everyone else felt more spiritual as well. (276)

What do you mean, you 'don't believe in homosexuality'? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary."–LEA DELARIA

Lee Rainwater and William Yancey have suggested, "The year 1965 may be known in history as the time when the civil rights movement discovered, in the sense of becoming explicitly aware, that abolishing legal racism would not produce Negro equality.